ALPINE-CVE-2024-27316

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CVE-2024-27316
Published: 04 Apr 2024, 20:15
Last modified:03 Dec 2025, 22:55

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
30/100
CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
3.1 (osv_alpine)
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

04 Apr 2024, 20:15
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
03 Dec 2025, 22:55
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

HTTP/2 incoming headers exceeding the limit are temporarily buffered in nghttp2 in order to generate an informative HTTP 413 response. If a client does not stop sending headers, this leads to memory exhaustion.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Systems

  • alpine•apache2

    < 2.4.59-r0 | < 2.4.59-r0 | < 2.4.59-r0 | < 2.4.59-r0 | < 2.4.59-r0 | < 2.4.59-r0 | < 2.4.59-r0 | < 2.4.59-r0

References (1)